346 Sixth Supplement to Dana’s Mineralogy. 
. Krevrzer: Leichtfassliche Anleitung zum Zeichen der Argan inched 
Netze, und zur Anfer ertigung ce Krista wea aus Pappe. 146 pp. 8vo, with 
ailae es 10 plates in 4to. work on the ates ee of the forms of the 
faces of simple and complex piel and the mode of making crystal mode 
of paper. 
: . M. Ziprz: Die Charakteristik der naturhistorischen Mineral-System, als 
Grundlage zur richtigen Bestimmung der Species des Mineralreiches. 250 pp., 8vo. 
Wien.—This of mineral an er acre _ the ap s et ae or. 
cies, with brief cs ate 
cu Hes anaes logische Notizen. 32 pp. 4to, with : plates of 
Poh of ¢ ecysials: “Heo # Forts setzung (continuation) of the same, 24 pp. 8vo, with 2 
plates—The figures are excellent, and represent many new forms of crystals. 
Liepener: Die Mineralien Tyrols. 1857. 
C. U. Smerarp: Report on the Pascoe Gold Mine. 16 pp. 8 New Haven.— 
This mine lies in the auriferous fens which extends for 300 saline poe "(South 
40° W.) fro on Co., arolina, PS he un, Habersham, Lump: 
— Forsyth, Che’ roke ee, Oat Polk, Pauldin ng and Carroll Cos., Georgia, and 
thence across Cherokee, Kenda ll and. Talapoos in Alabam: ama. | It is for the most 
o 
ze 
ge 
a 
a 
rnblendic with siteMiantidntelt quar and tal 
they dip 70° to to 80° te to the southeast. The gold ent: in pike intetaminaed quartz, 
and mostly in pyrites. The pyrit ~ - ee in ee eggs and decomposes 
rat ily ; it A sg in associated 
rth o 
e magnetite, — tiaelie chalo ite, gentiferous _— rutile, te- 
tradymite (rare), magnesian garnet, ores o mangan anese, rete rnet, staurotide, kyanite, 
in the mica schist ; “apadamtene is Pb t in granite, and with it occur small 
— which appeare red to be tin ore 
a C. U. Suzparp: Report on the New Bangor Slate Quarry in Polk Os Georgia 
pp. 8yo. 
Descriptions of Species. 
Axsrre [p. 240]—The sae Bot hee from sata du Bonhomme, Mont Blane 
cording to Hessenberg (Min. 8), are pounded parallel to the nlinod 
agonal oe Tha a both th Panoar coetghted th in agees 415 P ga 416 in the Mine- 
so composition in other crystals parallel to #-7 or the macrodiag- 
cal section. He eS also mentions the new plane 3’ in the albite crystals of 
git 
NITE [p. 208, vee is c IIL, TV, V].—Oceurs with —— at the Sanford 
ore 5 to (of mi agnetic on), M oriah, Hasex ee New a a along oe 
of them eight or ten Meh tong, ‘i or eight broad, sake pam aa two thick. 
wns nd at the same place in reddish browa crystals. W. P. Blake in this 
‘yolume, p. 245. 
MIAN, Breithawpt—According to ee cere description, (Berg. u. h hiitt. 
Wet. xs xvii, 53,) —, is an anhydrous pc perl. of alumina, from mines in the 
Almagrera, in Southern Spain. Crystals microscopic and probabl mt 
2 pec of clea savage H.=2—3; C2702 781; lustre of sm crystals 
color white; _ subtransluc 
‘By Uiendérfers pyeaaherron it contains 37 0 or r 38 per cent of alumina, along 
iphuric acid. ding the whole as S, the compound is 152==sulphorie 
1, alumina 39-09. BB. unaltered; only hygroscopic water is given off. 
< [p. 381, ae er from Puster valley in the Tyrol, afforded 
